Re: Recent Mathgroup Postings
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg35585] Re: Recent Mathgroup Postings
- From: Technical Support <support at southpark.wolfram.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 03:57:24 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello: There have been a several postings to Mathgroup recently concerning calculus problems in Mathematica V4.2 which have been based on development versions of Mathematica. Wolfram Research creates development versions of our software in order to test different areas of functionality and new implementations. Sending reports to Mathgroup based on these test versions is very confusing since readers may believe they refer to the official released versions. In addition, it seems more useful for reports to be based on versions of Mathematica that are accessible to readers of Mathgroup. Specifically, the posting of July 5 entitled, 'Yet Another Integrate Howler' refers to a development version. The released version of Mathematica V4.2 returns a correct result for this problem. In addition the posting of July 1 entitled, 'Yet another bug in LaplaceTransform', refers to a problem that we cannot reproduce. We believe that this also comes from a test version. We have an active mechanism for tracking and collecting problems in test versions, and we strongly urge participants in our test programs to make use of these procedures. As ever, we are very interested in reports of problems in shipping versions of Mathematica. We cannot guarantee to resolve all of them immediately, but we can guarantee to take them very seriously. Sincerely, Eric Bynum Technical Support Manager Wolfram Research, Inc. support at wolfram.com